The term “white elephant” is used to describe projects which gulp huge amounts of money, but fail to deliver benefits commensurate to their cost. In a...
The importance of the informal activities of the low-income group can never be overemphasised due to the patronage they enjoy from the high-income urban dwellers. These...
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) told us last month that 767 companies folded up in 2023, with 335 others distressed and obviously in danger of...
Nigeria’s spending has been increasing exponentially, yet its effectiveness is constantly in dispute, whether in hard infrastructure, power, education, or any area of public involvement. Yet...
It seems particularly odd that at a time when Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a Yoruba man, is President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, any group of...
Growing up in Jos all those years back, Eid celebrations were occasions heralded by the perversive aroma of sumptuous cooking. The cold, misty air of that...
The ongoing electricity tariff brouhaha should spur investors with vision into the local energy sector to take advantage of Nigeria’s large market. There are innovative solutions...
Nigeria’s Minister of Works Dave Umahi appears to be resolved to deliver good roads. I infer that from remarkable things he has been saying and doing. ...
Finally, Air Peace is flying to London. It doesn’t matter how one looks at it, the conclusion is that this is a triumph for the irrepressible...
Today’s column is about my conversations with you, my readers. Some of you I knew personally before I started writing, and many of you I only...
When Nigeria returned to democratic governance in 1999, a new crop of “professional politicians” emerged. Nyesome Wike was one of them. Elected chairman of Obio/Akpor Local...
The decision by the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria to hike its policy rate yesterday did not take many market observers by...
Last Friday, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, was reported as appealing to journalists to not give “undue attention” to bandits and other...
Our country is under siege. It has been for some years now. It is worsening because a problem not solved, and a challenge not taken up,...
In a recent story, I congratulated the Bola Tinubu administration for its decision to construct two so-called “superhighways” in the country. One will run between Abuja...
While in the third term of my fourth year in secondary school in 1983, the Zonal Office of the Niger State Ministry of Education organised an...
Terrorists and bandits appear to be daring the government and security forces with audacious, but outrageous group abductions of women, girls and school children in Borno,...
Presidential arrow deflectors were right. Weeks back, unable to counter the mass discontent and the barrage of criticisms against the slipshod, slovenly sloppy regime that has...
The initial title of today’s piece was to be: “No, this isn’t Islam” and was meant to be a response to the so-called ‘cleric’ who said...
The formal establishment of the IMF in December 1945 was dogged by secrecy and subsequent controversies. First the US Treasury Department, which was the main facilitator...
I published my first observations on the political party now known as the All Progressives Congress (APC), 11 years ago, titled, “Welcoming the APC.” Ten years later,...
One of the aspirations for the development of Abuja is having a city to serve as a symbol of Nigeria’s aspiration for unity and greatness that...
The most powerful words I have ever heard were not spoken by Sa’di, Frantz Fanon or the Mahavira. They were spoken by God, and then repeated...